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River basin trajectories : societies, environments and development /
This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ;
8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- River basin trajectories: an inquiry into changing waterscapes / Francois Molle and Philippus Wester
- Squeezed dry: the historical trajectory of the lower Jordan river basin / Mauro Van Aken, Francois Molle and Jean-Philippe Venot
- Are good intentions leading to good outcomes? Continuities in social, economic and hydro-political trajectories in the Olifants river basin, South Africa / Doug Merrey, Herve Levite and Barbara van Koppen
- From half full to half empty: the hydraulic mission and water over-exploitation in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester [and others]
- Managing the Yellow River: continuity and change / David Pietz and Mark Giordano
- The Colorado River: what prospect for 'a river no more'? / Doug Kenney
- Sharing scarce resources in a Mediterranean river basin: wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia / Patrick Legoulven [and others]
- Water competition, variability and river basin governance: a critical analysis of the great Ruaha river, Tanzania / Bruce Lankford, Siza Tumbo and Kossa Rajabu
- Buying respite: Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud river basin, Iran / Francois Molle, Iran Ghazi and Hammond Murray-Rust
- Rural dynamics and new challenges in the Indian water sector: trajectory of the Krishna basin, south India / Jean-Philippe Venot
- Pumped out: basin closure and farmer adaptations in the Bhavani basin in southern India / Mats Lannerstad and David Molden
- Much ado about the Murray river: the drama of restraining water use / Hugh Turral, Daniel Connell and Jennifer McKay.